Sahara Camp 2012 Gallery

Enjoy the many wonderful photos we took in the Sahara Desert. Click a photo to start a slideshow!

20 cups of tea please

A dragonfly dropped by at lunchtime

Aaargh! not scared

Alain’s improved suspension

Always plenty of birdlife at the wild oasis

And lo! the sun went behind a cloud!

And suddenly it’s off the dunes and back to the surface of the Moon

Bahareya Oasis

Breakfast Day 1

Cairo Airport – just pass your bags up here…

Camp Day 1

Checking the load

Cliffs in White Desert

Cloudscape over Bahareya Hotel

Day 1 sunrise

Deep into the oasis

Didn’t expect so many spectacular cloudscapes

Does this help with scale_

Don’t know why we didn’t stay here_

Early evening camp

Emergent shapes

End of Day Zero – about to leave the asphalt

End of Day Zero

Every evening there’s a fire

Evidence of groundwater

Footwork

Fossilised mangrove

From one terrain to another

God’s watercolours

Heading into the White Desert

I thought this one looked like a headless prancing horse

I thought this one looked like a prancing headless horse

Inspiration for the Sphynx_

It’s not all Landcruisers

Just keep pushing

Leaving the oasis at sunset

Lesson in wind erosion

Lunch in Bahareya

Midtown Bahareya

Mission Control – what does this button do_

More Geology

New life forms emerging from the primordial soup

No comment…

One of many geology lessons

Packing up to head into the Desert

Put your training to some use…

Sergo’s new suspension

Sorry about the dirty lens, but look at the texture

Still Midtown Bahareya

Sunrise series 1

Sunrise series 2

Sunrise series 3

Sunrise series 4

Sunrise series 5

Sunset over the Black Desert

Sunset over the White Desert

Texture at the Whale Valley

Texture of the rocks at Whale Valley

That’s sinking sand at the bottom

The Black Desert

The Dates Department

The sooty colour is iron ore sprinkles

These vertebrae look like the Three Little Pigs

This is a desert highway – that’s our camp at the base of the rock

This is why it’s called a Sea of Sand

This man is not a paeleontologist

This one had a beautiful song

Time for a rest after digging out

Time for an MOT

Vertebrae

Waiting our turn to come down

Wakey, wakey

Wall of sand

We train everywhere…

We’re going on a bear hunt….hope we don’t find one

Well out of spitting range

Whale Valley

Whale vertebrae

Whale, shark or croc?

When the sand is this trodden it’s time to move on – leave nothing behind

White Desert Meerkat

Yep, it’s stuck

I didn’t say “Lower”

In meringues this is the “soft peak” stage

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